thttpd config

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%imgsrc /images/bill.gif

Change the colors

Eventually change the default green background to white,

grep -r COLOR *

vi libhttpd.c

and clean up the BODY tags (two occurences).

note. one could also edit the defaults,

#vi config.h

but they're fine. Even INDEX_NAMES eventually points to index.cgi, already.

Compilation

Create the needed groupthttpd user and group,

groupadd www

note. otherwise you would get this error doing 'make install',

chgrp: invalid group: `www'

Compile and install,

./configure

make clean

make

mkdir -p /usr/local/man/man1/

make install

note. if you get this error doing 'make',

htpasswd.c:52: error: conflicting types for 'getline'

replace 'getline' by 'my_getline' in extras/htpasswd.c (two occurences).

Configuration

Create the web dir and some user,

mkdir -p /var/www/

useradd -g www -d /var/www/ -s /sbin/nologin thttpd

Configure thttpd,

vi /etc/thttpd.conf

like,

dir=/var/www

chroot

user=thttpd

logfile=/var/log/thttpd.log

pidfile=/var/run/thttpd.pid

vhost

charset=utf-8

cgipat=**.cgi

Note. other charsets: 8859-1, 8859-15

Create a virtual host,

mkdir /var/www/host.example.net/

Note. directory listing is enabled as long the directory has the 'x' permission

Usage

Start the daemon,

thttpd -C /etc/thttpd.conf

enable it at boot time,

cat >> /etc/rc.local <<EOF9

echo -n starting thttpd...

/usr/local/sbin/thttpd -C /etc/thttpd.conf && echo done

EOF9

Check the vhost is working. Open your web browser to the URL e.g.,

http: //host.example.net

Todo

Configure a minimal chrooted CGI environment,

mkdir -p /var/www/bin/

cp /bin/ksh /var/www/bin/

cp /bin/cat /var/www/bin/

ldd /var/www/bin/ksh

ldd /var/www/bin/cat

...

mkdir tmp/

chmod 777 tmp

chmod +t tmp

(cd /; tar cvf - dev/tty) | (cd /var/www; tar xvf -)

test it,

chroot /var/www /bin/ksh

cat <<EOF9

check

EOF9

exit